Give me reality

Okay so I was watching something off the Tivo yesterday after being awoken late that morning having had only 2 hours of sleep and not yet feeling like dealing with the world. It was this show "Private Practice" which for some reason records because I tell it to record Greys Anatomy. Yeah, shut up. Anyway, it's the usual doctor drama - one hot doctor has a thing for another hot doctor and neither will admit it and the whole thing usually perpetuates the "you must only date beautiful perfect (dramatic, baggage laden) people" myth that nearly all mind-numbing television does.

I was pleasantly surprised toward the end to hear this great line about REAL women come from one of the 'hot docs'. I tried to find it on youtube, but I think it's a bit too new to have that clip up. If I find it, I'll update the post. The only actual quoted dialog I could find is the one great main line instead of the context around it. The hot 'been hurt before and has no faith in men' female doc is chatting with the hot 'she thinks he's a player' male doc and he goes off on this schpiel to her that I actually loved and made the thing worth watching. [Update: found the clip. It's from about 0:30s - 1:00m of the way through this:
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"I like my women real. Real breasts, real skin, real lines around their eyes that mean they've lived and known pain."

AMEN. Same goes for men (sans breasts, please?). Those perfect, pretty, chiseled, trimmed, well dressed men are nice to look at now and then, sure, but they really don't do it for me as much as someone who just looks really, really....real. Give me scruff, callouses, dirt under the nails, scars, smile - lines and all. Give me a filp-flop wearing, slightly messy, slightly rowdy, slightly rough, slightly soft, slightly sensitive man who KNOWS himself and is nothing but REAL. If they can clean up and be that chiseled well dressed man when they want to, all the better. Female friends too. I like like to dress up, but I LOVE to dress down. I love to go camping and REALLY rough it and come back covered in dust. I like to LIVE and not worry about my nails. Friends or more, I want to be surrounded with reality, as unkempt as it may be.

This isn't my romantic want-ad. Far from it. I was just really impressed to hear a statement like that on TV these days. We need to hear more of that in society or our kids are going to (continue to) grow up REALLY messed up, you know? To everyone in my life who is unafraid to be REAL at all times - thank you.